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White House Amenable to Bipartisan Tax Reform

August 15, 2017

White House
officials, unwilling to repeat the Obamacare repeal failure and keenly aware of
intraparty dissidence, have been discussing tax reform with House Democrats. Treasury
Secretary Steven Mnuchin and chief economic advisor Gary Cohn have been meeting
with members of the House’s Blue Dog Coalition and the bipartisan Problem
Solvers Caucus to drum up support for reform. While the White House endorses a
cross-party approach to tax reform, director of legislative affairs Marc Short
said the decision on how to proceed ultimately lies with Congressional
Republicans, a nod to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that
the GOP would utilize the reconciliation process to pass a tax reform bill. While
reconciliation voting is not constrained by party affiliation, Dem. Virginia
Sen. Mark Warner predicted that if the Republicans opted to use the fast-track
procedure, no Democrat would support the bill.

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